What next, the kitchen sink?
Mark Wells needs a reality check.
He is bordering on paranoid schizophrenia. Posting up that emails should not be opened from an entire list of people who have done nothing other than disagree with his opinions.
When Mr. Wells was the subject of Gordon Teuber's and Victor Griego's requests to stop blogging while he was on the CAC, he screamed about the First Amendment. Yet when someone disagrees with him he goes off the deep-end. He claims to not censor his blog, but isn't instilling fear in people with false allegations and telling them to not open emails just another form of censorship?
Mark Wells is all over the map. All you have to do is read his blog and see the lack of any coherent structure or direction. He just loves to see his own words in print. And he loves the notoriety my calling him out brings.
But the truth is, the R-1 gang is attempting to hijack any type of rational discussion about the future of our community. (That's OUR, as in San Pedrans; not wannabees from RPV). They go from one hot-button issue to the next, switching topics quickly so they can't get trapped into having to produce actual supportive evidence for their position.
They tried to attack Ponte Vista on traffic. Then when their own traffic engineer, Chuck Thompson of Priority Engineering, confirmed Bisno's methodology they had to change topics. So they tried their hand at student generation. Oops, the Planning Department cut them off there, saying it was up to LAUSD to determine the validity of the student generation numbers. Not one word from LAUSD.
Hmmm... So what can they think of next? Oh, I know, all these brand new units will turn into rentals. It will turn the neighborhood into a "slum like Scottsdale Estates up in Carson". How elitist is that?
But see it doesn't matter to Mark or the rest of the R-1 gang. They just want to get everyone upset. There are a very small number of them who are playing Chicken Little, and unfortunately some people are being fooled. Once the details are known with empirical data to back them up, the R-1 gang's issues just fade away like the bad dream they are. The sky is not really falling, and the imaginative, exaggerated "problems" being hysterically shouted out won't materialize either.
Councilwoman Hahn, please don't be fooled by these Chicken Littles.
4 comments:
Re: Bisno developer traffic mitigation measures will not provide the neccessary relief over the long haul. Moreover, you and others are turning a blind-eye to the cumulative traffic impact of all new, planned and pending projects in San Pedro.All of which impact Western Avenue!.
Sorry Tom, no one is buying your spin.
You can attack Mark, but we know he is sincere, and he is a real person.
You can tell everyone that adding 10% more population to San Pedro right off of Western, won't affect traffic on Western, but we know better.
You can try to explain Bisno's laughable number of students at Ponte Vista. Then tell us how Ponte Vista is for working families.
You can call us elitists in an R1 gang, but we are over 8000 strong, and growing.
Tom, I am really disappointed in this level of personal attack. I don't feel that it has a place in what should be an open discussion and I really wish that both you and Mark will take things away from this kind of ad hominem bantering, which solves nothing.
Kara
Kara,
For the record, this post was voluteered to be removed. Mr. Wells declined saying he had had too much fun skewering it.
Tom
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